Ophir Kutiel (Hebrew: ????? ?????? ?; born April 21, 1982), professionally known as Kutiman , is an Israeli musician, composer, producer and animator. He is famous for creating online music video projects, ThruYOU , self-titled albums, and ongoing "Thru the City" viral series.
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Kutiel was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and raised in Zichron Yaacov. He started piano lessons at the age of six and later learned to play drums and guitars at the age of 14. When Kutiel was 18, he moved to Tel Aviv to study jazz at Rimon Music College.
While working at a local supermarket in Tel Aviv, Israel, Kutiel found a college radio station that played a genre of music that was very different from the classical jazz that he used to wear until then. After this experience, Kutiman met Sabbo, another Israeli artist, who introduced him to Afrobeat and funk music, including the sounds of James Brown and Fela Kuti, among many others. Since Kutiel's appetite for music deviates from his traditional training, in 2003, Kutiman embarked on a journey to Jamaica, where he studied reggae and worked with Stephen and Damien Marley.
Kutiman is best known for his viral video/audio mashup album "Thru You".
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Music career
In 2006, Kutiman signed a contract with the German music label, Melting Pot Music, based in Cologne. Soon after, his first single, "No Groove Where I Come From", was released, followed by the release of the hit song "Music is Ruling My World" - a collaboration with Karolina from Habanot Nechama. The episode of Kutiman's eponymous debut, which received a rating of 8.2 from Pitchfork Media and 7 out of 10 from PopMatters, was released in the fall of 2007. Under the Radar selected Kutiman as one of the "Watching Artists of 2008" along with Glasvegas and MGMT. Kutiman also won the 2010 ACUM award for producing the Karolina album, What Will I Do Now?
In the summer of 2010, Kutiman also held a concert concert with DJ Shadow in Tel Aviv, performing with her live band, The Kutiman Orchestra.
In June 2012, Kutiman released a new single and video clip of "Dover D". This video, created by Kutiman, documents the street art project by Dover D. Kutiman produced this song and played all the instruments featuring Elran Dekel, vocalist Funk'n'stein, on vocals. The song is featured on the BBC Music Radio show Gilles Peterson
In 2014, Kutiman was nominated for the Webby Award in the Remix/Mashup Video category for his 'Thru Tokyo' project, where he created an intimate music landscape for Tokyo. Since then he has been commissioned by various cities such as JerusalemTel Aviv, Riga, Krakow and New York (to be released in December 2015) to create an audio/visual portrait of each city's uniqueness.
Following Thru You 'success,' Kutiman released 'Thru You Too' in October 2014, an online music album consisting of an unrelated YouTube video. He was awarded Webby Honoree 2015 for his work in 'Thru You Too'. The project leads to intriguing international collaborations with some of the world's leading producers, DJs and musicians, spawning the creation of 'Thru You Remixes'. In "Thru You Remixes" 9 brilliant producers, emerging from different music genres and mixed countries "Thru You". The producers who participated in "Thru You Remixes" are: Movement Park City, Mixmonster & amp; Kalbata, Jim Dunloop & amp; Grzly Adams, Rejoicer, Free Robot, Red Axes, Tomgi, La Dame Noir and Copia Doble Systema.
In July 2015, Kutiman will release Cassava Room , a two-track vinyl featuring works of jazz and funk Kutiman. The EP serves as a soft launch for Kutiman Siyal Music's new label. The official launch of the label began with the release of Kutiman's sophomore album 6AM in June 2016. The original album of eight songs released under Siyal, featured a much more psychedelic sound.
Shortly after the release of "06:00" in July 2016, Kutiman was nominated and won Vibe Israel & amp; Shorty Story Award for "Extraordinary Content Creator in Israel".
"Thru You" (2009)
In 2009, Kutiman released "Thru You," an online music video project, featuring a mix of YouTube video samples, and the video project received over 10 million views in about two weeks. Time Magazine named it one of the "50 Best Inventions of 2009". Due to the success of Thru You , in October 2010, Kutiman was invited by YouTube to appear at the opening of "YouTube Play" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Two years after the release of Thru You , Kutiman created a new video Thru You , titled My Favorite Color , which attracted attention from many publications, including Wired , Fader , and Mashable , the latter giving "Video of the Day" the award.
In a June 2009 internet radio interview, Kutiman described how he first understood Thru You :
At first I took some drummers - before I had an idea of ​​ Thru You , I took some drummers from YouTube and I played on it - just for fun, you know. And then one day, just before I installed my guitar to play on the drummer from YouTube, I thought, you know - maybe I can find bass and guitar and other players on YouTube to play with this drummer.
Kutiman spent two months working on the Thru You project, and, as Kutiman explains:
It took two months, but it was very intense. I barely eat, I just work on the computer and go to sleep... day and night, and night and day... do not see friends, no family... not even the sun.
After revealing his work to only twenty friends, Kutiman's project spreads virally across the web, collecting over a million views in less than a week. After seeing Thru You, open source advocate Lawrence Lessig praised the project for pioneering a new, less regulated form of media, stating, "If you came to the Net with the idea that the old copyright system would work fine here, it's more than anything that will make you recognize: You need some new ideas. "
Kutiman did not travel often to promote his project but on June 19, 2009, he visited Wroclaw, Poland, in response to an invitation from an internet radio station. In an interview, Kutiman described the interests of various media in the Thru You project, as well as his own willingness to focus on his work:
I got a lot of offers, you know, for the show and for the DJ and for the interview only, but I really did my best, you know. I really do not like it, honestly â € <â € <- but you're so nice and nice, so I'm having fun.
"Thru You Too"
On September 12, 2014 Kutiman released "Give It Up", the first video of the sequel project titled "Thru You Too". The "Give It Up" earned over a million views in a matter of days. The "Thru You Too" includes six female vocalists as the center of the album. On September 23rd, the second video "No One In This World" was released and a week later the rest of the video was released on the YouTube channel Kutiman and the companion website was launched. The new project is covered by many international media such as Slate TIME Magazine, Billboard Magazine, and The New York Times.
"Thru You Too Remixes"
In 2015, Kutiman's popular album Thru You Too was remixed and released as an online album in the form of a website. A quest to capture the profound impact of Thru You Too leads to genuine collaboration with international A-list manufacturers who each provide their personal interpretation of the Thru You Too track. Each international manufacturer shows different country of origin and music style, such as hip hop, big beat, house, rank, and electropop. The project was released as an online album with the original website.
The producers who participated in "Thru You Too Remixes" are: Movement of the City Park, Mixmonster and Kalbata, Jim Dunloop and Grzly Adams, Rejoicer, Free Robot, Red Axis, Tomgi, La Dame Noir and Copia Doble Systema.
Video Mash
Kutiman combines Maroon 5: "My Favorite Color"
The "My Favorite Color" project blends together deeper, jazz-oriented sounds that have gained a lot of views and received praise from outlets such as Wired , CBS News , and TechCrunch . This video retains your ThruYou style using various YouTube video clips to form a single compilation, but the sound is more complex and dreamlike. "My Favorite Color" features many different clips, including an organ-playing mother, a young female singer who sings in her London bedroom, and a Omaha-based saxophone performing "free improvisation."
My Favorite Band: A Tribute to "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin
Paying homage to one of the most influential bands in music history, Kutiman created the work entitled "My Favorite Band" - it became the cover of the first "mashup" video produced by users of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog". Using an unrelated YouTube video from various musicians featuring "Black Dog", Kutiman combines her clips together to create an innovative cover version. Kutiman Award for Led Zeppelin is playing at the Flatpack Film Festival as part of the "Metal House" celebration. Filtering takes place in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (UK), close to the area frequented by Led Zeppelin.
This Is Real Democracy
In 2011, Kutiman released her video, "This Is Real Democracy". The purpose of the video is to raise awareness by using footage of people demonstrating in the streets and world leaders (past and present); the video is Kutiman's attempt to address and respond to events that are broadcast through other social media feeds. Although some videos are taken from YouTube, most come from traditional media sources - official TV stations - representing another new element in Kutiman's work.
Kutiman generally refrained from making political statements and speculation arising related to the title of the work; the discussion asked whether "This is a Real Democracy" is a reference to Mubarak, Netanyahu, Cameron and Sarkozy; or whether it refers to the forces released from people when they march, protest, rebel or riot.
Off Grid
Kutiman's latest project titled Off Grid was released on February 11, 2016. Off Grid was released in the form of an online album, consisting of 96 unrelated YouTube clips. The project paid homage to free jazz and psychedelic music. The release was accompanied by the official website, www.Kutiman.com.
On September 20, 2016, Kutiman aired an Off Grid exhibition at the Tel Aviv Art Museum. The project has also been featured in the installation of Ron Arad Call Curtain in London and Singapore. In July 2017, Off Grid arrived at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Through The City (Sustainable Series)
Through Jerusalem
In June 2011, Kutiman was selected as "This Season Artist" for "The Cultural Season of Jerusalem" and he made the video "Thru Jerusalem". This work is different from the mixture of his past, because he himself who approached and shot the musicians, rather than find it on YouTube. Although Kutiman filmed the musicians themselves, he did not provide any guidance or direction as they played and mixed the recordings themselves. In July 2011, the song won the World's First Prize Call for Music Video of the Duo or Palestinian Jewish Group presented by the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Room Dialogue.
Via Krakow
In 2012 Kutiman was invited by the Jewish Cultural Festival to Kraków, Poland and made a second clip in his Thru series - Thru Krakow, featuring many festival artists, including: Frank London, David Krakauer, Uri Caine, Paul Shapiro, Cantor Benzion Miller, Raphael Roginski, Miko? Aj Trzaska, DJ Funklore (Tomasz Jurecki), Family of Alaev.
Via Tokyo
In August 2012, Kutiman was invited to Kutiman to shoot and record Japanese and Japanese traditional musicians and artists based in Japan to create the Thru Tokyo. The video was released in 2013. Thru Tokyo is the third video in the series "Thru the City", following the success of Thru Jerusalem and Thru KrakÃÆ'³w.
This project is a collaboration with PBS, which broadcast the recording exclusively on the official PBS YouTube channel.
Via Tel Aviv
Following Thru Tokyo, Kutiman is working with The British Council and The Space to create Thru Tel Aviv. Mix the City invites people around the world to make their own interpretations of Tel Aviv. Kutiman recorded a four-minute video of YouTube musicians representing Tel Aviv's diverse sounds including Akka-born musician Ziwar Bahlul.
The video release was accompanied by Mix the City interactive website.
Music videos
In addition to Kutiman's audiovisual collage, where he has composed music, Kutiman also directs music videos.
Kutiman's first video was an animated music video made for her song, "Chaser", from her debut album. Kutiman's second animated music video is for "Eze Kif" Hadag Nahash.
In 2010, Kutiman worked with Karolina to make a music video for her hit song, "Smile 2 Me", taken in 150 different locations in Tel Aviv. The video has been featured at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, as part of the Flux Screening Series. Kutiman also received an Acum award for the album Karolina, What Should I Do Now? , which he produces with Sabbo.
"Light Up", Kutiman's video for Boom Pam, a local hero of surf rock, was voted one of "10 Best Videos" by City Mouse, one of Israel's leading websites. Kutiman makes use of video projection that has been manipulated with various materials for making music videos. The song embodies a semi-Moroccan rhythm, a 1970s metal, "psych-fuzz", and is a tuba-driven song with deep and entertaining lyrics.
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Movies: Presenting Princess Shaw
In 2015, Magnolia Pictures with director Ido Haar debuted Presenting Princess Shaw; The real story that inspired Samantha Montgomery aka Princess Shaw, an aspiring musician, and artist from New Orleans whom Kutiman discovered from half the world over. The film made a splash in film festivals around the world and received remarkable reviews from the New York Times, Rotten Tomatoes, and Rolling Stone.
On September 22, 2016, Presenting Princess Shaw won the Israeli Academy Award (known as Ophir Awards) for "Best Documentary." Both Kutiman and Princess Shaw were present and performed live performances together at the ceremony.
Collaboration
Music Collaboration
In the early 2000s, Kutiman had formed a production partnership with fellow musician Ronen Sabbo and together they produced several Israeli artists, including Karolina, Esther Rada, Roni Duani, and Shay Gabso to name but a few. The couple also released several singles & amp; a full-length album titled "Better Days" originally based on a duo tape made in 2004 in Jamaica with local vocalists such as Turbulence, Norris Man and Milton Blake amongst others.
In 2009 Sabbo & amp; Kuti produces a critically acclaimed Karolina full album "What Will I Do Now?" and won music regulation awards by the Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Music in Israel (ACUM). In 2013, their production for the single Ester Rada "Life Happens" became a hit singer breakthrough and was the most played song on Israel radio station 88fm, while the 2013 single Karolina "Shadow of the Palm Tree" they produced was the 8th song most played on Israel Radio & amp; TV ACUM match.
Assigned Collaboration
Kutiman has been commissioned by Fiverr, Jerusalem Season of Culture, Mix The City/Thru Tel Aviv and Google (at the Guggenheim Museum) to create original works that retain full creative freedom.
Fiverr: "Inner Galactic Lovers"
Kutiman made original songs and videos for Fiverr. He tapped the Fiverr music community to create the Futuristic/Soul song "Inner Galactic Lovers". Kutiman virtually collected 24 Fiverr musicians from a dozen different countries for a cohesive musical collaboration. Virtual clock sessions consist of individual music video performances organized under Kutiman's guidance.
Discography
- No Plot of My Place Coming From 7 "(Afro Kats) October 2006
- No Plot Where I Come From! 12 "(MPM) November 2006
- No Reason For You 12 "(MPM) March 2007
- Music Mastering My World (w/remix by DJ Day) 12 "(MPM) June 2007
- Kutiman CD/LP (MPM) November 2007
- Dover D (B.M.usic) June 2012
- Cassava Room (Siyal Music) July 2015
- "6 AM" (Siyal Music) June 2016
References
External links
- ThruYOU website
- ThruYouToo website
- Live live interview with Kutiman
- Poetry Candle article in Kutiman by David Ma
- Research through annotated mirrors
- Copyright v Artistic Voice and the Great Kutiman - Newswire MP3 article about reaction to video Kutiman ThruYou
- Frere-Jones, Sasha (March 30, 2009). "Weight Taking: Interview with Kutiman". The New Yorker . Retrieved April 8 2009 .
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